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Social Security payments could suffer interruption soon as DOGE causes ‘system collapse' (fortune.com)

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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, who headed the agency during the Biden administration, urged people to start saving money now because benefits could be interrupted in the next one to three months. He told CNBC that changes DOGE is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages, which he predicted will become more frequent until there is a “system collapse.”

The federal government has never failed to deliver Social Security payments on time, but a former commissioner warned that could happen soon as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes changes and cuts staff.

Martin O’Malley, who led the agency during the Biden administration, told CNBC on Saturday that cuts have already led to IT outages, which he predicted will become more frequent and last longer each time until there’s a total failure.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No, but it's going to take a lot to stop it at this point.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm thinking we need to bring a lot. Like NOW.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

One day of boycotts on the 28th wasn't even close to enough.

It needs to be a near total economic blackout except for stocking up on staple foods combined with a General Strike. We don't just need Depression Era recipes, we need depression era recipes aimed at cooking and feeding hundreds at once. It's going to take that level of commitment of mutual aid teams cooking for their community all day every day.

Look, violence is coming anyway but we don't need to demand the violence first. We can make great headway with non-violence and that gives us time to organize and prepare and have people ready to stand watch and protect when the violence comes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

50501 is doing state capitol protests again tomorrow I believe, and there's a Ukraine protest at the House office building in DC, and there's a No Kings protest tomorrow at I think the Capitol ahead of his address to congress. There's a lot going on, but none of them are big enough and not enough people know about them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

A. That one day was not all that is on the plan. 2. You can't get people to do a general strike with out starting from somewhere. See point A. C. Time organize, prepare, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah... Some of the solutions start easier (someone just shoots musk and his lackeys dead) but bring high chaos.

More stable solutions I don't even know what they'd look like.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

10 million people occupying the streets of every street in every city in the country for days, weeks, months, until the entire economy collapses. It is actually the least chaotic and least violent way out of this mess.

Typically that would never happen, but if DOGE manages to really destroy social security payments, I would be willing to bet that of the 67 million recipients who can no longer afford food - some would be happy to camp in the nearby street for some of that yummy food that they have there... More plausible now that the weather in the US is starting to warm up now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I just feel like there's a lot of "You hate every piece of capitalism, but you won't connect the dots to see they're all coming from the same source." It won't be enough to restore social security payments if we still have billionaires just walking around, or we keep this broken two-party system that also empowers less populated areas. Just to name two issues off the top of my head.

We need larger, structural, changes.

But I guess everything starts somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, just like a handful of gun food should do the trick